No, this is NOT a Saturday Night Live skit on the government shutdown!
The federal government actually closed “the ocean” in Florida.
Can you imagine? “I’m sorry sir, the ocean is closed… Please turn your boat around.”
This government is like a SNL cast that never leaves the set!
Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown.
Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown. The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban… of access to an ocean.
The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business. This is governing by temper-tantrum. It is on par with the government’s ham-fisted attempts to close the DC WWII Memorial, an open-air public monument that is normally accessible 24 hours a day.
By accessible I mean, you walk up to it. When you have finished reflecting, you then walk away from it. At least that Memorial is an actual structure, with some kind of perimeter that can be fenced off.
Florida Bay is the ocean. How, pray tell, do you “close” 1,100 square miles of ocean? Why would one even need to do so?
Apparently, according to an anonymous Park Service ranger, “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.” Centuries ago, King Canute famously failed to command the ocean tide to stop. His display was actually a means to educate his subjects on the limits of royal power. Today, however, our President actually believes he has the power to control the oceans.
We need to find out from this Ranger who exactly told him to make life difficult as possible for people as possible and follow it back up the line. Someone has to be held accountable for this. I am not a prisoner that will be told where I can go or do.
To much to fast, bet he will close down Hunting.
What kind of idiots are running our country??? Something needs to be done about it and the people that some of us elected.
This is OUTRAGEOUS! When will this bastard be stopped?
They didn’t close the ocean you idiots. They shutdown a river because of a disease that was water-bourne. Two people have died. RESEARCH FACTS BEFORE BELIEVING $#%&!@* LIKE THIS.
May I ask how this is the President’s fault? When the Senate is the one responsible for the government shutdown! Oh and on a side note the Senate is still getting paid!!
P.s. I’m not an Obama fan just trying to get the true story.
If the government stays shut down will they eventually just go away?
I wonder how they funded shutting down the ocean during a government shutdown……
I wonder how many underground facilities they have that they won’t tell us about….
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